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Nationality: Australian: Occupation(s) Naturalist, writer, adventurer, Thylacine expert and believer: Known for: His research on the Thylacine: Notable work: Tiger Tales: Stories of the Tasmanian Tiger, Shadow of the Thylacine, Lure of the Thylacine
Thylacines in Washington D.C., c. 1906 The International Thylacine Specimen Database (ITSD) is the culmination of a four-year research project to catalogue and digitally photograph all known surviving specimen material of the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) (or Tasmanian tiger) held within museum, university, and private collections.
In video games, boomerang-wielding Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is the star of his own trilogy during the 2000s. [166] Tiny Tiger, a villain in the popular Crash Bandicoot video game series, is a mutated thylacine. [167] In Valorant, agent Skye has the ability to use a Tasmanian tiger to scout enemies and clear bomb-planting sites. [168]
The preservation of a complete Tasmanian tiger head meant that scientists could study RNA samples from several important tissue areas, including the tongue, nasal cavity, brain and eye.
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Scientists at Colossal Biosciences may be a few steps closer to resurrecting a long-extinct carnivorous marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger.
Tasmanian tiger – Despite the widely held view that the thylacine (or Tasmanian tiger) became extinct during the 1930s, accounts of alleged sightings in eastern Victoria and parts of Tasmania have persisted to the present day. [27]
Reviving the dog-sized marsupial sounds noble, but some scientists say “de-extinction is a fairytale science.”